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Indian Health Service
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Dr. McAuley is an internist and pediatrician as well as an adult and pediatric infectious disease specialist. He received his BS, MPH, and MD from Northwestern University, and completed residency and fellowship training at the University of Chicago. His Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene is from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He served in the CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service. From 1992 until 2011 he started a TB/HIV program at Lawndale Christian Health Center in Chicago, after which he served as the Medical Director of the Cook County Jail and then as the Director of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Program Director for the Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program at Rush University. In 2011 re-joined CDC as a medical officer in Zambia. He served as the CDC Zambia Country Director and led efforts in two major Public-Private initiatives – Saving Mothers Giving Life, and Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon. Dr. McAuley has published over 160 scientific manuscripts, abstracts, and book chapters related to HIV, TB, parasitology, and general infectious diseases. He has served on the US Department of Health and Human Services Pediatric HIV Treatment Guidelines Committee since 2008. He is an ordained Presbyterian minister and while in Zambia he taught 'HIV and the Pastor' at Justo Mwale Theological Seminary. Dr. McAuley twice served in Sierra Leone 2014-15 as the CDC Team Lead where he directed 60-100 CDC workers as they sought to contain the West African Ebola Epidemic. In 2016 he received the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Global AIDS Program Kellie Elizabeth Lartigue-Ndiaye Humanitarian Award for exceptional compassion in carrying out the Global AIDS Program mission. After service in Zambia Jim left CDC and joined the US Indian Health Service. Dr. McAuley is the Clinical Director of the Whiteriver Indian Hospital which serves the White Mountain Apache Tribe on the Fort Apache Reservation in Arizona. Since arriving in Arizona he has recruited over 35 providers and guided Whiteriver to become a Joint Commission accredited Primary Care Medical Home facility. The Whiteriver team has investigated, presented and published work on Staphylococcus aureus, Streptooccus pyogenes, and SARS-CoV2. Jim and his wife Amy live on the White Mountain Apache Reservation.
